African American Music Heritage Project & Friends Of Group Meeting

Meetings regarding two Asbury Park Public Library initiatives will be held this week. The first up will be a community gathering for the ongoing African American Music Heritage Project aimed at celebrating the stories and the once vibrant music history that dotted the westside community. The 7 p.m. Thursday event will include an opportunity for […]

Madison Marquette: New Seafood Restaurant Coming To AP Boardwalk

Iron Whale – a new seafood restaurant by Executive Chef Michael Dolan will open in the soon to be completed Fifth Avenue Pavilion redesign along the Asbury Park Boardwalk, Madison Marquette officials have announced. Dolan, who served as the executive chef at Tim McLoone’s Robinson Ale House, as well as other Jersey Shore restaurants, began […]

Art629 Group Exhibit Opens June 30

A new group exhibit entitled Portraits: Artists’ Interpretations of the Human Personality will open June 30 at Art629 gallery, located at 629 Cookman Avenue. This collections spotlights everything from the realistic and surrealistic to the abstract and conceptual, gallery owner and Asbury Underground creator Pat Schiavino said. “I have been thinking about this show for […]

Awards Given For Safety & Clean Community Initiatives

Three new recognitions were given to the City of Asbury Park for its safety and environmental initiatives this past month. Most recently, the New Jersey Intergovernmental Insurance Fund [NJIIF] presented the Mayor and City Council with a Safety Incentive Program Award and $1,500 incentive for creating and maintaining a safe environment for its employees, volunteers, […]

Pastor Akins: I ask that the community would stay peaceful and respectful of each other

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, It is with a saddened heart that I write this editorial, particularly in light of the many text, emails, phone calls, and messages that have been sent to me personally and to my church. I have been an active community leader and supporter of the entire Asbury Park Community for over […]

From an inaugural Pre-K Bridge Crossing and Bradley Elementary School Prom to Thursday night’s High School Graduation and Friday morning’s Martin Luther King Jr Middle School Promotion, the Asbury Park School District celebrated its traditional and new rites of passage this past month. Newly sworn in Commissioner of Education [the district’s former superintendent] Dr. Lamont […]

Community Leaders & Biz Owners: We Stand United In The Name Of Love, We Are Asbury Park

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, Ninety six hours. It has been four short days since the reality of the man behind the “Festival of Life” was revealed to our beloved City. In those ninety six hours, a protest was planned and has now metamorphosed into something much better. Much more powerful. And most importantly, as a beacon of […]

Mayor Moor: We respect the Festival’s rights to free speech and assembly but, at the same time, implore them not to take advantage of people and, most definitely, not to spread intolerance

The Asbury Park Mayor and City Council have issued an official statement following the controversy that surrounds the upcoming Festival of Life event planned for June 24 to 29 in Bradley Park, located at Ocean and Fifth avenues. The controversy was sparked by a former Asbury Park resident’s social media post asking for the LGBTQ […]

Birch, 17, Will Join Council, 18, in Facing 30 years to life For February Fatal Shooting Of 10 Yr Old AP Boy

A Neptune Township teen charged with fatally shooting death 10-year-old Yovanni Banos-Merino in Asbury Park back in February will face those charges in an adult court, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has announced. A Superior Court judge has ruled that Jah-Del K. Birch, 17, of Embury Avenue in Neptune Township, now faces adult charges […]

The Third Annual Asbury Park Day celebration returns Saturday with a mission to unite the city’s diverse population. Organized by a group of westside citizens and organizations, the annual event was created by a June 15, 2016 proclamation set forth by the City Council that marks the fourth Saturday in June as Asbury Park Day. […]